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Playoffs? HERE WE GO. · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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Speaker 1: Head books. Welcome into the Irish Steeters Podcast. The podcast
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Speaker 1: or Irish Pittsburgh Steeters fans across out of the Darland
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Speaker 1: and beyond. Michael mcquid, Jimmy English, Dan mckeeth. As we
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Speaker 1: roll in to Super wild Card weekend, the Steelers have
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Speaker 1: another game this weekend. We're in the playoffs, baby, Jimmy.
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Speaker 1: Look after a few weeks ago, if you give me
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Speaker 1: a Super Wildcard game, I would have bit your arm off.
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Speaker 1: We're here playoff football. There's nothing like it isn't well.
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Speaker 2: I was out for dinner there on Sunday evening making
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Speaker 2: I had one eye on my phone keeping an eye
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Speaker 2: on the score of the Jags on the Coast game,
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Speaker 2: and luckily they just sorry the Jags in the Titans
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Speaker 2: game even and the Titans came through and put us
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Speaker 2: through to the Super Wildcare weekend. So we live to
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Speaker 2: fight another day. In long may continue. We might be
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Speaker 2: seeing the Steeers Vegas yet, you never know. But look great,
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Speaker 2: great to be here, Great to still be rolling after
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Speaker 2: the regular season with at times looked like it was
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Speaker 2: gonna be gonna go down in flames. So long may continue.
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Speaker 1: The three game loser, I think, I think a lot
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Speaker 1: of us. Not that we lost hope, but it's so
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Speaker 1: hard sometimes to pick yours havelf up from that and
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Speaker 1: to see the team pick themselves up and make that
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Speaker 1: run at the end of the season great to see,
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Speaker 1: especially when you don't have your first choice quarterback available
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Speaker 1: for a few weeks and you bring in somebody else.
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Speaker 1: So it's been great to see over the last few weeks.
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Speaker 1: Dave As said the Jimmy and Jimmy said it was
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Speaker 1: up not only playoff football. There's so many teams sitting
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Speaker 1: on the soapers this weekend watching the games. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: see the Steelers. We'll talk about that Buffalo game in
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Speaker 1: a while, but great to be here a game and
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Speaker 1: the podcast lives on for at least another week. How
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Speaker 1: you doing well?
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Speaker 3: Like yeah, the pod Shaws lives on. The Steelers live
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Speaker 3: on as well. Wich You Attain is more or less
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Speaker 3: like a playoff week in itself. But just watching that
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Speaker 3: Titans and the Gays game, biting the finger nails off myself,
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Speaker 3: was just and it just came down to the last
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Speaker 3: wire and thankfully for us it swung in our way
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Speaker 3: and the Titans we have a big thank you. Just
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Speaker 3: sand to rebel despite him losing his job today. But now,
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Speaker 3: apart from that, it was it was fantastic to be
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Speaker 3: in the in the playoffs last year. Of course we
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Speaker 3: weren't there at Peas Ages since we watched a Steelers
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Speaker 3: playoff game. But yeah, it's good to be back.
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Speaker 1: Good to be back. And it's funny, Jimmy, because they
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Speaker 1: have sort of talked about how a WEIK eight team
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Speaker 1: felt like the playoffs just a really weird feeling across
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Speaker 1: the whole weekend. I really enjoyed the slate on Saturday,
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Speaker 1: and I guess before we go into talking about the
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Speaker 1: game against the Ravens, just briefly touched on it before
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Speaker 1: we look ahead to this weekend. We know the Steelers
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Speaker 1: fans show up. We've seen them show up in Dublin
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Speaker 1: at the watch party. We've seen how many fans were
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Speaker 1: at the Allegiance Stadium for that game at the primetime game.
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Speaker 1: Know we had a few weeks ago Tali what hopefully
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Speaker 1: we see a lot more black and yellow in Allegiance
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Speaker 1: Stadium in around three or four weeks time, please go
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Speaker 1: on for the super Bowl. But I was really and
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Speaker 1: I know it's not that far away on the road
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Speaker 1: for tackling both teams. But I was blown away by
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Speaker 1: then what the Steelers fans are. It was awesome. It
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Speaker 1: was like I wouldn't say it was like a many
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Speaker 1: home game, but certainly I think that I think the
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Speaker 1: bonds definitely helped that team get over the line. And
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Speaker 1: what's always tough place to go to all the primetime
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Speaker 1: game as well.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, when you consider the weather as well and make
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Speaker 2: I mean it was absolutely atrocious Mt. Banks Stadium on
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Speaker 2: Sunday for the Ravens game, and it was great to
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Speaker 2: see that this soggy, terrible tales being twirled in the air.
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Speaker 2: At one point there was that there was a great
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Speaker 2: cry of mooth when when Friar caught a past. So absolutely,
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Speaker 2: I mean we've seen all season really how well the
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Speaker 2: Steelers fans traveled, and even again see after a couple
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Speaker 2: of weeks ago there was there was a great continue
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Speaker 2: the Steelers fans there so not the crowd and the
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Speaker 2: support has definitely had an impact on how well the
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Speaker 2: team has played this year, and so they need to
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Speaker 2: be they definitely need to be grateful for that.
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Speaker 1: We're now listening to the Mason Rudolph Appreciation Society. It
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Speaker 1: is Look, a win to the Staters is almost a
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Speaker 1: good thing. But to go to Baltimore, Yes, they were
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Speaker 1: resting players, but we said this last week. They've got
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Speaker 1: efficient backups both a quarterback with Tyler Huntley, and they've
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Speaker 1: got a decent run game no matter who's there. Gus
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Speaker 1: Edwards and but Tyler Hunting as well had a decent game.
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Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon didn't have a great game for the Ravens,
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Speaker 1: but that defense for the Steelers. We will talk about.
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Speaker 1: TJ in a minute, gets the team over the line.
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Speaker 1: Mason looking good, the team looking good as well, Deonte
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Speaker 1: Johnson as well. Happy days. Wins a win, we move on,
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Speaker 1: and I don't know a lie the people. I think
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Speaker 1: we all said in the podcast last week that we're
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Speaker 1: you know, we've boughtably win. I was nervous cluded to that.
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Speaker 1: I was like, God, you just yous, like like if
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Speaker 1: it was a game in Pittsburgh. Okay, but I was nervous.
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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people were as well. But
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Speaker 1: it's worked out. What was your just overall thoughts to
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Speaker 1: the other performance on the field last Saturday.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know you're you're Red Mick was. It was
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Speaker 3: nervous because it's a divisional game against our biggest rivals.
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Speaker 3: You know, great, great win of course on the road,
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Speaker 3: and as Jimmy just said, one of the worst conditions
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Speaker 3: you'll ever see. Just being from Ireland, we don't am
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Speaker 3: with them, you know, we're used to rain over here.
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Speaker 3: But you know, despite that, you know the Ravens starter
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Speaker 3: sitting it out, you know they're still there's still like
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Speaker 3: obviously you feel real feel of discontent between the two.
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Speaker 3: You know, they wanted to come in and spoil the party,
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Speaker 3: and after long periods it looked like they might get
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Speaker 3: their wish. But you know, fair play to the guys
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Speaker 3: is stuck in there in extremely tough conditions and you
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Speaker 3: know for large parts you know yourself and Jimmy or
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Speaker 3: my witness, and I was wanting Kenny introduced. You know,
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Speaker 3: I thought Mason looked a bit sluggish in comparison to
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Speaker 3: the past two weeks. But I felt that, you know,
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Speaker 3: he was made any hope on the ball for a
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Speaker 3: bit too long. Albeit the offensive line was struggling early
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Speaker 3: on as well, didn't help him out. But looking them back,
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Speaker 3: I was probably a bit two reactionary in the moment,
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Speaker 3: and I just thought, you know, it's due or day.
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Speaker 3: You know, if we lose here, we're out and we
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Speaker 3: better switch up just before it's too late. But fair
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Speaker 3: player to Mason. You know we came up Trump's in
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Speaker 3: the with a big play that Deante which evactively won
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Speaker 3: us the game and it allowed us to pound the
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Speaker 3: rock with Nage. By the way, been incredible for us
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Speaker 3: the past couple of weeks. You know, Isaac c Malo
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Speaker 3: is another player who deserves a massive shout out. I
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Speaker 3: thought he was excellent. Didn't allow a sack throughout all
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Speaker 3: the eighteen weeks, so overall, really happy. Wasn't the Sages
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Speaker 3: back in the playoffs? I'll have said, you know, we
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Speaker 3: were right there last year, and you know we with
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Speaker 3: as Mac Tomlin says, the standard and the stander at
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Speaker 3: the Pittsburgh Leaders have to be in the playoffs each
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Speaker 3: and every year. So it's glad to be back and
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Speaker 3: glad to be watching the Seeders mit January as as
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Speaker 3: we should be.
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Speaker 2: Nai it was Nagie's. It was Nagi's third back to
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Speaker 2: back to back pousing yard rushing season and a career
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Speaker 2: I think he had a season nine career rushing touchdowns
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Speaker 2: this year as well, playing ten rushing touchdowns and so
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Speaker 2: like just like like you say, I mean, I agree
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Speaker 2: with you that Mason didn't look Mason wasn't wasn't playing
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Speaker 2: its best. I mean, it looked like he was actually
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Speaker 2: afraid of throwing the deep ball. Really, I think he
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Speaker 2: won deep shot down field early on to to Deandon
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Speaker 2: Johnson that that was missed. And then apart from the
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Speaker 2: touchdown pass which was all the anti Johnson. Really it
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Speaker 2: was a great pass. He squeezed it in there and
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Speaker 2: it was a tight it was tight coverage. Fair play
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Speaker 2: to him. But I mean, you would have liked to
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Speaker 2: have seen and take a couple of more deep shots.
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Speaker 2: And obviously the weather was the factor. But yeah, I mean,
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Speaker 2: and what was the story with George Pickings getting you
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Speaker 2: need targets? E there have?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, like it's that was one that even the commentators
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Speaker 1: started to pick up on in the third quarter. And
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Speaker 1: I was gonna actually ask you that, Jimmy, I'll ask
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Speaker 1: you first before it would have did completely agree with
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Speaker 1: what you boys said. A Nagy great to see. I'd
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Speaker 1: love to see a we'll talk about the Bills game
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Speaker 1: in a bit. I'd love to see a combination team
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Speaker 1: between him and jail and getting as much as possible
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Speaker 1: this weekend. But yeah, George not getting in them, I mean,
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Speaker 1: very strange. The way that I see it is this, right,
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Speaker 1: I don't care who's in the field. If you're throwing
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Speaker 1: somebody the ball, they catch it and they running, I'm
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Speaker 1: happy enough. If you're a team guy, you're a team guy.
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Speaker 1: I just I'm just happy that the Steelers won the game.
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Speaker 1: But I guess fans us everybody wants to see George
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Speaker 1: too well as well. But the thing is that Jimmy
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Speaker 1: George Pickens could have a break like another big breakout
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Speaker 1: game this weekend, in a huge game. If Pickens was
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Speaker 1: to have one or two touchdown bosses in Buffalo, that
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Speaker 1: could be the hell of a lot going in there.
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Speaker 2: I think he needs to have another breakout game, honestly.
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Speaker 2: I mean, we've seen when he's given the ball. I mean,
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Speaker 2: can you even see it? If he sees one on
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Speaker 2: one with George, he's George is getting the ball. And
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Speaker 2: there was a number of situations, a number of scenarios,
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Speaker 2: perhaps later on in the game, when the Ravens might
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Speaker 2: have identified that he wasn't being targeted as much where
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Speaker 2: he was in one on one situations and he wasn't targeted,
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Speaker 2: So just very very strange. I mean after after the
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Speaker 2: run of games that he had, I mean, particularly against
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Speaker 2: the Bengals. I mean, he was just phenomenal against the Bengals,
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Speaker 2: absolutely torturing them. So you would have thought, especially with
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Speaker 2: the connection that he has shown with Mason, that he
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Speaker 2: would be involved a lot more so. Definitely a player
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Speaker 2: that you want to have primed in the playoffs, especially
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Speaker 2: when it's it's a winner go home, and considering the
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Speaker 2: fact that we're already going to be to copleted on
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Speaker 2: defense against against Buffalo and we might necessarily be able
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Speaker 2: to rely on our defense as much as we'd like.
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Speaker 2: The offense is definitely gonna have to step up in
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Speaker 2: a big way and have a big game.
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Speaker 1: We will look at that, I guess in a little
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Speaker 1: bit and sort of see the crack and will also
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Speaker 1: react to the news on TJ at Watts and all
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Speaker 1: let's do go first in the second, but certainly let's
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Speaker 1: go first and hear from coach Mike Tomlin, the head
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Speaker 1: of the huge super wild Card game this weekend against
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Speaker 1: Buffalo in upstate New York.
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Speaker 4: You know, we've got familiarity with Buffalo. We've got familiarity
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Speaker 4: with that venue. I'm sure they say similar things about us.
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Speaker 4: It's January football. They have a lot of tape to
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Speaker 4: digest and analyze and to prepare for as do we.
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Speaker 4: And so it's chestnut checkers this time of year. We're
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Speaker 4: really excited about it. I'll start talking about them first offensively.
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Speaker 4: If you're talking about slowing them down offensively, man, you
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Speaker 4: start first and foremost with Josh Allen, who is just
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Speaker 4: an credible competitor. They utilize his talents and his competitive
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Speaker 4: spirit very well. That can be displayed by their design
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Speaker 4: run game and weighty moments, possession down, red zone situational moments.
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Speaker 4: He's got fifteen rushing touchdowns on the season. Boy, that
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Speaker 4: is something to deal with. And so's challenging. The mathematic
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Speaker 4: or the schematic component of quarterback mobility, particularly from a
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Speaker 4: design run standpoint, is really challenging, especially when you have
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Speaker 4: the passing talents that he has and the and the
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Speaker 4: arsenal of people to spread the ball around. Two at
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Speaker 4: running back, they've got really good quality depth. Cook is
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Speaker 4: a thousand yard rusher four nets. Has brought a little
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Speaker 4: thunder to that lightning in recent weeks, we'll have a
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Speaker 4: we'll have our hands full working to try to minimize
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Speaker 4: the things that they do in the run game with
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Speaker 4: their collection of backs and Cook being foremost in that.
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Speaker 4: In the passing game, uh Stefan Diggs, Gabe Davis, kN
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Speaker 4: Ka Cook, they have a lot of options and Josh
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Speaker 4: Allen does a really nice job of spreading the ball
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Speaker 4: around to those options. You can work to destroy the
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Speaker 4: natural rhythm in which they operate, but you know, a
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Speaker 4: strepth of his game is ad libbing and extending plays,
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Speaker 4: and so you know, certainly we want to throw off
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Speaker 4: the rhythm of the things that it is that they do,
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Speaker 4: but it creates another set of issues for you defensively
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Speaker 4: as he utilizes his talent to extend plays and to
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Speaker 4: and to maybe run to throw. He sees the full
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Speaker 4: feel as he as plays get extended. It's just a
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Speaker 4: real challenge. And obviously we've had our challenges, particularly in
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Speaker 4: the interior portions of our defense over the second half
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Speaker 4: of the season, as as attrition is set in in
11:53
Speaker 4: terms of matching up on tight end like bodies, particularly
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Speaker 4: in situations, and so they got a formidable tight end
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Speaker 4: tandem that's going to have more of our attention, particularly
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Speaker 4: as we get into the week, and started looking at
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Speaker 4: elements of situational play, because that's been an issue for us,
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Speaker 4: and if you're not making people settle for field goals
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Speaker 4: in January, you're not gonna be in the tournament very long.
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Speaker 4: And so those are some of the things that kind
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Speaker 4: of have our attention on that side. Focusing on Buffalo's
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Speaker 4: defense man, they have unbelievable talent and depth upfront. What
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Speaker 4: they've invested in their front and the quality of that
12:35
Speaker 4: investment is very evident when you watch tape. They had
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Speaker 4: a formidable group man going into last summer. They added
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Speaker 4: to that group with Leonard Floyd and I think he's
12:44
Speaker 4: added ten and a half for him. They did long
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Speaker 4: contract business with Oliver. He's got nine and a half.
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Speaker 4: Some of the other young guys, some of the young
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Speaker 4: eds dynamic guys they've drafted and you're watching them develop
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Speaker 4: in all the appropriate ways and impact games in dynamic ways,
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Speaker 4: whether it's sack sack fumbles or tip passes. You got
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Speaker 4: to be really careful in terms of the screen game,
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Speaker 4: perimeter passing, and so forth. Their dynamic edge group man
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Speaker 4: get their hands on a lot of balls and create
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Speaker 4: havoc in that way, and so that has our attention.
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Speaker 4: Obviously environmentally, it has our attention when you're talking about
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Speaker 4: quality rushmen in the front like that, if we get
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Speaker 4: one dimensional in an environment like that, if we get
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Speaker 4: behind the chains in an environment like that, they have
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Speaker 4: the type of group that can really provide splash. And
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Speaker 4: so we better do a good job of not being
13:39
Speaker 4: highly penalized, not having a lot of negativity and what
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Speaker 4: it is that we do. And those are some of
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Speaker 4: the main ways that you stay on schedule and minimize
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Speaker 4: one dimensional opportunities for collective like that, and we better
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Speaker 4: do a really nice job of doing so. We also
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Speaker 4: just better do a nice job of being thoughtful in
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Speaker 4: one dimensional passing moments to make sure or that we're
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Speaker 4: not creating an environment where they can provide a wave
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Speaker 4: that the Bills ride just got a lot of respect
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Speaker 4: for the front, their secondary. They've got awesome continuity, particularly
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Speaker 4: the interior portions of their secondary. Johnson Pourrier and Hide Man,
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Speaker 4: it seems like they've been back together, been back there
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Speaker 4: together for over you know, half a decade or so.
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Speaker 4: That continuity is evident. And how they adjust, how they communicate,
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Speaker 4: how they minimize explosion plays in the run and in
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Speaker 4: the past, they do a nice job of corraling the
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Speaker 4: ball and keeping a lid on it. Their dynamic playmakers, blintzers, tacklers,
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Speaker 4: coverage people, tailor rap has been an awesome addition to him.
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Speaker 4: He's a guy that started capable. They get in diying
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Speaker 4: packages on on possession downs. They play all three of
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Speaker 4: those safeties, dynamic bunch. They lead a turnover culture that's
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Speaker 4: displayed in their ball awareness and production in that area.
15:04
Speaker 4: They punch balls out, they rake balls out, They're very
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Speaker 4: ball aware. There's a lot of spot drop zone coverages. UH,
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Speaker 4: they have vision to break. They do a nice job
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Speaker 4: of reading and reacting to quarterbacks and and getting multiple
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Speaker 4: people to the action.
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Speaker 1: UH.
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Speaker 4: They play well as a collective. Again, continuity is a
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Speaker 4: component of that, and obviously Sean mcdermot's been there for
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Speaker 4: for a number of years now and that's kind of
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Speaker 4: displayed in in the high floor, but also just the
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Speaker 4: splash play capabilities within the group as well. And so
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Speaker 4: there's a lot to be excited about from a challenge perspective.
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Speaker 4: Venue life without TJ and obviously playing without TJ is significant,
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Speaker 4: but to be quite honest with you, We've played without
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Speaker 4: a lot of people this year. It's just another opportunity
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Speaker 4: for us to strike a blow for teams and to
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Speaker 4: display what team really means, collective of individuals that work
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Speaker 4: together in an effort to produce an outcome. It's not
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Speaker 4: gonna be a one man job in terms of replacing TJ.
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Speaker 4: Just like I stood before you and said similar things
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Speaker 4: when Cam Heyward missed a block of games, it is
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Speaker 4: going to be a committee approach. Even in doing so,
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Speaker 4: we better strengthen our output in other areas because TJ
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Speaker 4: is one of a kind. But that's ball. There's a
16:30
Speaker 4: nutrition component to it. That's what makes it the ultimate
16:33
Speaker 4: team game. I'm excited about preparing this group, knowing on
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Speaker 4: the front end of this week the resources at our disposal,
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Speaker 4: the manpower, the talents, the amount of time and so forth,
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Speaker 4: and now we get an opportunity to prepare and lean
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Speaker 4: in on some legitimate action.
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Speaker 1: Good to hear from coach Tomlin. And it's funny the
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Speaker 1: because we keep getting the news before we recorded last week,
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Speaker 1: we need a quarterback situation within twenty minutes of recording
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Speaker 1: this week with the same evening TJ Watt obviously is
17:03
Speaker 1: a great two mc l Springing and I love tech.
17:09
Speaker 1: I love Twitter doctors the pop up during games and
17:12
Speaker 1: they give you all the diagnosis. I think we all
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Speaker 1: sort of held a little bit of hope he might
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Speaker 1: play this week. Not going to happen, and for TJ
17:18
Speaker 1: want to play again this season, the Staters need to
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Speaker 1: get a win against the Bills to even make that
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Speaker 1: remotely happen. Hopefully TJ rests up. Hope he's okay, and
17:26
Speaker 1: I know a lot of that. I know every Staeters
17:28
Speaker 1: fan across the island of Ireland send some of our
17:30
Speaker 1: best wishes. You must be good at Dave are.
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Speaker 3: You absolutely got it back. And as I was just saying,
17:38
Speaker 3: we were always open out hope because he is super human.
17:40
Speaker 3: I mean, this guy regenerates muscle strange sprains four times
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Speaker 3: faster than any other outverage human. So that's just one
17:48
Speaker 3: of those things where we were hoping out for. But yeah,
17:52
Speaker 3: it's obviously a massive blow at the end of the day,
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Speaker 3: it's our star defensive player. But at the same time,
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Speaker 3: you know it's it's always going to be nax Man up.
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Speaker 3: You know, we've got Nick Herbig who anybody listens to
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Speaker 3: this podcast knows don rightly that we we believe in
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Speaker 3: every single inch of him to come up trumps and
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Speaker 3: step in and hopefully, you know, fill that void. But
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Speaker 3: then apart from that, you know, we've still got players
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Speaker 3: on the defensive side. They're obviously going to be able
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Speaker 3: to step in and hopefully kick the load off. You know,
18:19
Speaker 3: we've still got Chalmeran Heyward, We've still got Ale sit
18:21
Speaker 3: Smith at the other side. So at the end of
18:24
Speaker 3: the day, you know, it's it's really about Neximu up
18:26
Speaker 3: and hopefully we can give him that second playoff game.
18:28
Speaker 3: You know, as I say, it's a tough task going
18:30
Speaker 3: into Buffalo and winning, but hopefully, you know, we're going
18:33
Speaker 3: to be able to give them that as well as that.
18:35
Speaker 3: There is rumors of course that there there will be
18:37
Speaker 3: another what brother playing and on that side. I don't
18:40
Speaker 3: know if you've seen J. J. Watts twitter posts got
18:42
Speaker 3: me a little excited, But who knows, maybe he might
18:45
Speaker 3: show up in Buffalo on Sunday afternoon.
18:49
Speaker 1: Loving post retirement j J. Jimmy. It's funny just because
18:52
Speaker 1: he was given us so many updates A but TJ
18:55
Speaker 1: great great to obviously see the brotherly love there. The
18:58
Speaker 1: WhatsApp group for US Boys was popular, not in the
19:00
Speaker 1: good way when he went down. I guess we just
19:04
Speaker 1: hope that we have that opportunity to seem out there
19:06
Speaker 1: againting this season, because they're gonna have to. The defense
19:08
Speaker 1: is gonna have to stab up and play from this begind.
19:11
Speaker 2: I mean, the reason he's just the NFL sack came
19:14
Speaker 2: three years in a row of finishing this year, it's
19:16
Speaker 2: like and a half ahead of Trey Henderson. I believe
19:20
Speaker 2: with nineteen, he's just phenomenal. I mean, we cannot stay
19:24
Speaker 2: enough how rucial TJ. White is to this, to this
19:28
Speaker 2: team and to this team's success. I mean, he literally
19:31
Speaker 2: puts the team on his back, gaming game out. So
19:35
Speaker 2: obviously a massive loss considering as well kind of the
19:38
Speaker 2: wealth of offensive weapons that the Bills have, and in
19:41
Speaker 2: terms of you know, we all know how how mobile
19:44
Speaker 2: Josh Allen is. It's fantastic rushing James Cook there as well.
19:48
Speaker 2: I mean a top qual that he's running back. So
19:52
Speaker 2: it's it's gonna be hard, and I just hope that
19:54
Speaker 2: Marcus Golden and Nick Rubricker can somehow combine to fill
19:58
Speaker 2: that gap then never be able to re precicate EJ
20:00
Speaker 2: and what he brings. But yeah, look it's gonna be
20:04
Speaker 2: tough and he's gonna be sorely missed. So yes, hopefully
20:07
Speaker 2: indeed we can somehow find a way to beat the
20:09
Speaker 2: Bills away this weekend, gets through to the divisional round
20:13
Speaker 2: and give TJ the playoff game he deserves.
20:17
Speaker 1: Before we look at that Bills game, let's finally hear
20:20
Speaker 1: from a special guest, gladly to welcome back carry G
20:23
Speaker 1: footballer Patty Clifford as he joins us a crunch time
20:27
Speaker 1: in the season. Steers got a huge game this Saturday
20:29
Speaker 1: against the Buffalo Bills, a super wild card weekend. Great
20:32
Speaker 1: to hear from Paddy, Delighted to welcome into the Irish
20:37
Speaker 1: Theaters podcast, probably the most well known Staeters fan, I'd
20:40
Speaker 1: say in the island of Ireland. Carrie Zone, Paly Clifford party.
20:45
Speaker 1: I have to value. I think I either text you
20:48
Speaker 1: it was immediately after the game and Weekly eighteen or
20:51
Speaker 1: the day after going party. It's time. It's the playoffs.
20:54
Speaker 1: We have to get you on and you wholeheartedly oblige
20:57
Speaker 1: that vulsh welcome Heiden, but good.
21:00
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know it was.
21:02
Speaker 6: I suppose the welcome surprise that that would look forward
21:05
Speaker 6: to the playoffs and on Sundays, So yeah, a welcome
21:09
Speaker 6: surprise would look forward to now.
21:12
Speaker 1: And that day and Kroker party seems you know, a
21:15
Speaker 1: long time to go now that the year is just
21:17
Speaker 1: flowing in. I guess that somebody had his eddy this
21:20
Speaker 1: time last year, that whole year would have happened. You
21:22
Speaker 1: would have thought it was mad. I remember you were
21:24
Speaker 1: saying for people listening, you weren't at the event in
21:27
Speaker 1: Dublin because I think your your your team Foster was
21:30
Speaker 1: playing on the Sunday or something. I mean, you must
21:32
Speaker 1: have had serious fom watching that because here it was
21:36
Speaker 1: great Crack and Croker and I'm sure you can't wait
21:38
Speaker 1: to the next.
21:38
Speaker 6: One, Yeah, exactly, Yeah, I know I was obviously disappointed
21:42
Speaker 6: as missy event, so so hopefully no, I'll be able
21:44
Speaker 6: to make the next one. Looked like great Crack and
21:47
Speaker 6: it was great to see such a big crowd sporting
21:49
Speaker 6: the Steelers.
21:50
Speaker 3: Just wondering, Partty, did you get the chance to watch
21:52
Speaker 3: much for epicision. You know, I've know the lodge on here.
21:54
Speaker 3: You know they were able to watch nearly close to
21:57
Speaker 3: every stop. But someone like yourselves. You have a bit
21:59
Speaker 3: of a busier she hadule than us the time. Much
22:01
Speaker 3: did he get to watch in the end?
22:03
Speaker 6: Yeah, look, I got to watch I suppose most of
22:07
Speaker 6: the Stears games. And if I didn't get to watch
22:09
Speaker 6: it live, i'd watch I'd watch it back or watch
22:12
Speaker 6: the highlights or whatever.
22:13
Speaker 5: So no, I didn't. I didn't miss many Stedier games
22:16
Speaker 5: Stedars games anyway.
22:18
Speaker 1: Just just on average party, you know, going in commonly
22:21
Speaker 1: the week nineteen of the season officially called Super wild
22:23
Speaker 1: Card weekend, there had there Look, there's been ups, there's
22:27
Speaker 1: been downs. There was a few weeks there where it
22:29
Speaker 1: looked like the playoffs might not have happened, but it
22:31
Speaker 1: has happened. How would you, I guess, just in your
22:34
Speaker 1: own just in your own words, the fan sort of
22:36
Speaker 1: sum up how you find the season for you so far,
22:39
Speaker 1: and there's still hopefully a decent way to go.
22:43
Speaker 6: Yeah, look, I suppose it's hard to kind of uh,
22:47
Speaker 6: it's hard to be over over the optimistic because we're
22:51
Speaker 6: kind of dealing with this snow for the last few years.
22:54
Speaker 6: We obviously struggled into the playoffs the last few years,
22:58
Speaker 6: but like I was was, looky, we have and we
23:01
Speaker 6: have a differential of minus twenty, which obvious season where
23:04
Speaker 6: you want to be. But again it just shows how
23:08
Speaker 6: good Tom is and how there's great termination in there
23:11
Speaker 6: to keep keep making our way into the playoffs, even
23:14
Speaker 6: though as you said, we struggled a bit happy to
23:16
Speaker 6: be there and the course.
23:18
Speaker 3: I just I just obviously listened to that podcast from
23:20
Speaker 3: earlier in the season party and you know your both
23:22
Speaker 3: production actually was for the Staders and make the playoffs.
23:25
Speaker 3: We just about got there in the end. We at
23:27
Speaker 3: all worried halfway through the season that it wasn't going
23:29
Speaker 3: to happen.
23:30
Speaker 5: Very worried, very worried.
23:31
Speaker 6: I was, I was, I had nearly I had actually
23:35
Speaker 6: resigned the fact that we weren't going to make the playoffs.
23:37
Speaker 6: There was a few very very poor weeks there, maybe
23:43
Speaker 6: yeh three quarters the way through the season, halfway two,
23:46
Speaker 6: and the offenses wasn't firing and the defense was poor
23:49
Speaker 6: as well at the time, so I had resigned to
23:51
Speaker 6: the fact that we weren't going to make it. I
23:55
Speaker 6: think my prediction at the start of the year I
23:57
Speaker 6: was a bit more optimistic than than we actually that
24:00
Speaker 6: how we actually did, even though it's obviously great to
24:02
Speaker 6: make the playoffs. I thought it might be a bit better,
24:04
Speaker 6: But as I said, I'm happy that we're in the
24:07
Speaker 6: playoffs and always still have a chance.
24:09
Speaker 1: Misson Rudolph comes in now and he's obviously officially been
24:12
Speaker 1: named the starter going into this weekend in Buffalo, top
24:15
Speaker 1: of the Bills in a week second but different quarterback
24:18
Speaker 1: to Kenny Pickett. I was impressed at just how the
24:21
Speaker 1: team got over the line and weekly a team, even
24:23
Speaker 1: though it was the I guess it a weekend or
24:26
Speaker 1: a sort of a reserve Ravens team to an extent,
24:29
Speaker 1: but Misson Rudolph especially, was it that game around Christmas?
24:32
Speaker 1: Done really really well. It brings a bit of a
24:35
Speaker 1: freshness to the position. How do you find him so far?
24:37
Speaker 6: Partly yeah, good, I like obviously known Rudolph for a
24:42
Speaker 6: good few years. He's an ager passer, but his pocket
24:46
Speaker 6: presence isn't great, But he is an afpert passer, and
24:50
Speaker 6: I suppose he's kind of playing his last chance. I
24:53
Speaker 6: suppose for him, he's he kind of feeled, so he's
24:55
Speaker 6: he's thrown the shackles off a bit. Whereas obviously maybe
24:59
Speaker 6: pick and obviously Trusky just wasn't good enough. But maybe
25:04
Speaker 6: Picktt was kind of playing within himself a bit, whereas
25:06
Speaker 6: maybe Rudolph as throng the shackles off. And I suppose
25:11
Speaker 6: when we have good, good weapons, they need they need
25:14
Speaker 6: a bit of a bit of aggressive quarterback play. So
25:17
Speaker 6: it's it's worked out well and hopefully he can keep
25:19
Speaker 6: it going.
25:20
Speaker 3: You know what I'd like to imagine, you know, the
25:21
Speaker 3: playoffs sort of correl it with the All Aaron Football Series.
25:24
Speaker 3: You know, if you like, you know, you get through
25:26
Speaker 3: the National League, get three monster. I suppose you could
25:28
Speaker 3: say it's a bit like the regular season in the NFL.
25:30
Speaker 3: He sounds much body when you're in straight up knockout football.
25:33
Speaker 3: Is there much of a difference, you know, compared with
25:35
Speaker 3: a traditional or maybe we can afford a bit of
25:37
Speaker 3: a heck up here throughout the league and stuff. Is
25:39
Speaker 3: there much of a difference when you feel it is
25:41
Speaker 3: back to the wall knockout football?
25:44
Speaker 6: Yeah, I suppose, Yeah, Look, there is there is a difference.
25:46
Speaker 6: There's a different you have a different mindset. And I
25:50
Speaker 6: suppose that might actually work in the Steiers favorite that
25:53
Speaker 6: the builds. There could be a bit of nerves with
25:55
Speaker 6: the builds they've they've I suppose been close to delivering
25:59
Speaker 6: for a few years, haven't delivered. So again, if if
26:02
Speaker 6: they lose again the next DA against the Steers, it's
26:05
Speaker 6: not going to be I suppose that they'll be really
26:08
Speaker 6: it'll be a head scratcher for them. So maybe maybe
26:11
Speaker 6: we could play on that and maybe Alan could make
26:13
Speaker 6: a few mistakes and and maybe benefit from it.
26:16
Speaker 5: We could benefit from it.
26:17
Speaker 1: How does Pauly Clifford watch either the game or the
26:21
Speaker 1: highlights of the Bills game against the Dolphins when it's
26:24
Speaker 1: on at three o'clock or four o'clock in the morning,
26:26
Speaker 1: irish had I mean only I was struggling for where
26:29
Speaker 1: they're not gonna lie Sunday night. But one thing I
26:31
Speaker 1: took away from it was the belief that the Bills
26:33
Speaker 1: have and their team Like we've seen him play in
26:35
Speaker 1: London firsthand and was sitting from here to the wall
26:37
Speaker 1: from Josh Allen and he looked like a lot that
26:39
Speaker 1: was just down trodden and done for the season. Five
26:42
Speaker 1: or six weeks in, they've completely turned it the round
26:45
Speaker 1: and we have to find a way to go in
26:48
Speaker 1: to that stadium and find a way to sort of
26:52
Speaker 1: carve out and stop that atmosphere they look hot, and
26:55
Speaker 1: that's putting it lightly.
26:57
Speaker 5: Yeah.
26:58
Speaker 6: Look, I suppose it's probably, howbably one of the worst
27:00
Speaker 6: straws we could have got if you think about it, really,
27:03
Speaker 6: I probably is the worst straw we could have got,
27:04
Speaker 6: especially having to go to Buffalo. But there is Look,
27:09
Speaker 6: there's I think obviously our run game has improved massively
27:14
Speaker 6: in ledgy rs is playing very well, so I suppose
27:16
Speaker 6: we could definitely we could definitely have joy in the
27:20
Speaker 6: run game. The only thing we obviously we need to
27:22
Speaker 6: we need to contain Josh Allen or else if they
27:24
Speaker 6: gonna lead. If they're gonna lead on us, obviously we
27:26
Speaker 6: won't be able to run and it won't be as effective.
27:28
Speaker 5: So I suppose that's where the defense.
27:30
Speaker 6: If the defense gonna have a good start and contain
27:33
Speaker 6: at on some bit, maybe our run game could. As
27:35
Speaker 6: I said, we could have joyed from the run game
27:37
Speaker 6: and maybe maybe go from there.
27:39
Speaker 5: Yeah. I agree.
27:40
Speaker 3: I think if we don't get off their good dart,
27:42
Speaker 3: you know, it could be curtains. But hopefully Fingers Stross
27:44
Speaker 3: we do you and you know, just even when we've
27:46
Speaker 3: talked about t J Watt so much on this podcast
27:49
Speaker 3: over the past couple of weeks spacially, you know, the
27:51
Speaker 3: injury isn't great. Give us voted the MVP a couple
27:53
Speaker 3: of weeks ago up for the team. I'm just wondering, party,
27:55
Speaker 3: who would be your MVP? Would you maybe Corley with
27:58
Speaker 3: the rest of them, or is there anybody maybe the
27:59
Speaker 3: culture but you wouldn't expect.
28:04
Speaker 6: Yeah, look, obviously it's obviously hard to it's hard to
28:08
Speaker 6: look past TJ. Watt would be would be the MVP.
28:11
Speaker 6: His his stats tell the tell their own story. But
28:16
Speaker 6: it's obviously it's been very it's been very good to
28:18
Speaker 6: see Nagie Harris in the last few weeks playing playing
28:21
Speaker 6: the best he's ever played for the Steiers. Because it
28:24
Speaker 6: not that it looked like he was a bus but
28:25
Speaker 6: I suppose it didn't look like he was a first
28:27
Speaker 6: round running back. So so maybe maybe he can make
28:32
Speaker 6: he maybe he can live up to his first round
28:35
Speaker 6: to where he was speaking the draft now that he's
28:38
Speaker 6: he started to play and he's got his conference back,
28:40
Speaker 6: because he is a player that that we can hopefully,
28:45
Speaker 6: hopefully we've been cheering on for.
28:46
Speaker 1: Years to come, just talking on the Steelers and talking
28:49
Speaker 1: on obviously Mike Tomlin pay seventeen years streak now winning
28:53
Speaker 1: record for this team. Now, there's not too many coaches
28:56
Speaker 1: in the guy that would even go for seventeen years,
28:58
Speaker 1: never mind that annount. But that is some streak. Never
29:02
Speaker 1: mind the fact that they've just been you know, having
29:04
Speaker 1: that winning season, never had a losing season, And obviously
29:08
Speaker 1: we want more than that this season going forward, But
29:11
Speaker 1: that's still some some feet and I think we'll be
29:13
Speaker 1: looking back in twenty years time looking at that as greatness,
29:15
Speaker 1: to be honest.
29:15
Speaker 5: With, unbelievably unbelievable.
29:18
Speaker 6: He's he just seems like a great man manager and
29:22
Speaker 6: everyone wants to play for him, and obviously he yeah,
29:28
Speaker 6: he's just able to get the best out of the seam.
29:29
Speaker 6: And obviously I suppose it's obviously like we're obviously all
29:34
Speaker 6: going to be disappointed that that we haven't won a
29:36
Speaker 6: playoff game in a long time now, and we as
29:41
Speaker 6: as Steels friends, we want more. We want to get
29:43
Speaker 6: back to where we're compete with for super Bowls. But
29:46
Speaker 6: but that record is just obviously an unbelievable record, and
29:51
Speaker 6: if he could just get us back to that, I
29:53
Speaker 6: suppose the top table it would it would cementum semintum
29:56
Speaker 6: has been one of the greatest coaches ever.
29:59
Speaker 1: Yeah.
30:00
Speaker 3: Agree, more just just a final one from me, Potter.
30:02
Speaker 3: You know, George Pekins was a bit of a topic
30:04
Speaker 3: earlier on the podcast for us and didn't have any targets,
30:07
Speaker 3: didn't get any receptions last week against the Ravens. If
30:10
Speaker 3: you think of yourself, mate, where maybe you haven't had
30:13
Speaker 3: the best game, how would you maybe try and bounce
30:15
Speaker 3: back from that one? Obviously he's a professional, He's going
30:18
Speaker 3: to come back and track, you know, play his best game.
30:21
Speaker 3: But how would you normally bounce back after a tough
30:23
Speaker 3: like a tough game maybe where you weren't playing as
30:25
Speaker 3: well as you thought you could.
30:28
Speaker 6: I suppose it's it's it's slightly different that that Pickens,
30:32
Speaker 6: that that the game plan I suppose wasn't didn't revolve
30:35
Speaker 6: our own Pickens or didn't didn't bring him into the game,
30:37
Speaker 6: whereas I suppose in our game you could go looking
30:41
Speaker 6: for the ball, Whereas there's that really much Pickens can
30:44
Speaker 6: do there. So I think we need to get him
30:46
Speaker 6: into the game plan more this week. And I know
30:49
Speaker 6: that he has been in the last few weeks other
30:50
Speaker 6: than last week, but we just need to get him
30:52
Speaker 6: into the game plan more and let him go to
30:55
Speaker 6: work because we all are the tality has and I
30:59
Speaker 6: think we're we're not going to be beating the Bills
31:01
Speaker 6: unless we get a good game of the pickings.
31:03
Speaker 1: Just finally, as you've been very gracious to join us
31:05
Speaker 1: at such a busy time now, as you guys are
31:07
Speaker 1: getting prepped for the year ahead, and look, you've had
31:11
Speaker 1: a stater Wellbyn County career to date and low make
31:14
Speaker 1: continue for you, Brash, listen to you and your family
31:16
Speaker 1: on that. But there have been games, like any sports,
31:20
Speaker 1: sports stars or athlete, where you go in the games
31:23
Speaker 1: and sometimes you're the underdog. A lot of people look
31:27
Speaker 1: at the Stadlers going in this weekend as the underdog.
31:29
Speaker 1: What sort of motivation do you have to have going
31:31
Speaker 1: out there and Saturday? Because the reality is, but the
31:34
Speaker 1: minute that ball it's frown, both teams are oh oh.
31:37
Speaker 1: And this postseason is almost like a new season and
31:40
Speaker 1: momentum nothing else really counts. And at this defense, surely
31:44
Speaker 1: there's a chance that something can happen. Give us some optimism.
31:47
Speaker 5: Put there's definitely a chense.
31:49
Speaker 6: Yeah, as I said earlier, we need to we need
31:52
Speaker 6: to contain them early and our defense needs to contain
31:56
Speaker 6: them early. We need to hope that josh Allen has
31:59
Speaker 6: has a future and overs which has what she is
32:01
Speaker 6: capable of doing if we can get enough pressure on him.
32:04
Speaker 6: We have a fairly decent record against mobile quarterbacks. We
32:09
Speaker 6: usually do fairly well against Lamar Jackson. Obviously we didn't
32:14
Speaker 6: do too bad against Kyler Murray. We didn't beat him,
32:16
Speaker 6: but he didn't beat us with our legs with his legs. Sorry,
32:19
Speaker 6: So yeah, look, we can contain him, make him, hopefully
32:23
Speaker 6: make a few mistakes. A big game from Rudolph and
32:27
Speaker 6: the weapons that we have, we have a chance.
32:30
Speaker 5: We have a chance. Softly, I'll take that.
32:33
Speaker 1: PAULI, thanks so much for coming on. I know it's
32:36
Speaker 1: you're always busy, but you were very generous to call it,
32:39
Speaker 1: quite frankly a busy time of the year fe a
32:41
Speaker 1: few months ago. We definitely appreciate it, with no doubt
32:44
Speaker 1: that hopefully we'll see at some Steels events down the
32:46
Speaker 1: line in twenty twenty four, and I know you probably
32:49
Speaker 1: feel the same. It's been great to see what they've
32:51
Speaker 1: done in the gods of the year, and I'm sure
32:54
Speaker 1: we'll get you on. If not the preseason hopefully coming
32:57
Speaker 1: in the next season, and sure luck if we get
33:00
Speaker 1: towards the Super Bowl, will have the other game in
33:02
Speaker 1: the meantime. All the best of the year apart from
33:05
Speaker 1: if he feels us and me and they ever laughing
33:07
Speaker 1: here already if Trump player carry But apart from that,
33:09
Speaker 1: the very very best this year and the best. Sea
33:12
Speaker 1: for being so supportive of this podcast. But it's great
33:14
Speaker 1: to have an Aubus Steers fan of Ireland to chat
33:17
Speaker 1: so appreciate it. Ponty and Chatty soon, thanks very much
33:19
Speaker 1: for having me on. Holly Clifford on the Irish Staters podcast. Boys,
33:27
Speaker 1: where do we go?
33:27
Speaker 5: Here?
33:28
Speaker 1: Where do we go? Now? I have to say this.
33:30
Speaker 1: First off, we obviously go to bed and we you know,
33:33
Speaker 1: we don't hear about the timings of these games set
33:36
Speaker 1: until we wake up. And I went to bed, Jimmy,
33:38
Speaker 1: I was hoping, I was praying. I thought, right, give
33:41
Speaker 1: me the Saturday night game, or give me that early
33:43
Speaker 1: Sunday game. And we got our wish six o'clock this Sunday,
33:49
Speaker 1: and again for Steelers fans across the island of Ireland,
33:51
Speaker 1: game is on television on Sky Sports NFL. You can
33:53
Speaker 1: listen to no TV as well. Jimmy, what are your
33:57
Speaker 1: keys to this game? Because I think some times people
34:00
Speaker 1: are very quick to say, oh, it's in Buffalo, It's
34:03
Speaker 1: gonna be very, very difficult to win a game, not
34:05
Speaker 1: just against Josh Allen, step On Diggs, but Bill's mafia one.
34:08
Speaker 1: The last time I checked, Steelers are one Steelers were
34:11
Speaker 1: one game back off them. On the record this season,
34:14
Speaker 1: the Steelers had multiple games this year where I personally
34:17
Speaker 1: felt the cold about either Wall. Look at that watch
34:19
Speaker 1: party they were so you know, they were so close
34:21
Speaker 1: scoreline wise of turning that game around. It's something that
34:23
Speaker 1: went their way. Obviously we know what Mason Rudolf's going
34:26
Speaker 1: to start a quarterback. We've seen the Bills this season
34:30
Speaker 1: be up and down like a yo yo. I've never
34:33
Speaker 1: seen someone as deflated as Josh Allen in London, like
34:37
Speaker 1: literally face to face after that game. And for them
34:39
Speaker 1: to be in a position they are now after beating Miami,
34:42
Speaker 1: you have to give them credit. But I certainly think
34:45
Speaker 1: Jimmy the pressures on Buffalo here, Buffalo already talking about
34:49
Speaker 1: three or four games to go this year. Pittsburgh have
34:52
Speaker 1: as much chance, I think as anybody going in. But
34:54
Speaker 1: they need take it off. Well, they need to get
34:56
Speaker 1: a good start to this game, and that has to
34:58
Speaker 1: come in the form of efficient, lasting game, but more
35:00
Speaker 1: so a strong run game and that defense coming up.
35:04
Speaker 1: What's your thoughts of this game my month.
35:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like you're saying, making mean, I think the
35:08
Speaker 2: Steelers have nothing to lose. I mean, they were written
35:10
Speaker 2: off halfwarch of the season, not a hope of making
35:12
Speaker 2: the playoffs. So I think this is this is like
35:13
Speaker 2: bonus football for us. We're going into into Buffalo, into
35:17
Speaker 2: Upstate New York this weekend with literally nothing to lose,
35:20
Speaker 2: everything to play for. So I think the pressure is
35:24
Speaker 2: definitely on on Josh Allen and Sean McDermott. And like
35:28
Speaker 2: you said, Josh Allen has been absolutely mercurial this year
35:32
Speaker 2: this season. A game you don't know which version of
35:34
Speaker 2: him you're going to get, So it depends is it
35:36
Speaker 2: going to be the dynamic run thrash slinging the ball
35:40
Speaker 2: all over the place, where it's going to be the
35:41
Speaker 2: interception machine. So I think whatever version of Josh Allen
35:45
Speaker 2: shows up on Sunday is going to have a massive
35:48
Speaker 2: factor in this game. And as well as that, I mean,
35:51
Speaker 2: we have we ourselves need to get our own offensive go,
35:54
Speaker 2: our own offense going a lot more like we said
35:57
Speaker 2: earlier on in the podcast, I mean, George Pickens has
35:59
Speaker 2: to be a key part of this offense on Sunday.
36:02
Speaker 2: You have to feed him the ball early and often,
36:05
Speaker 2: as soon as he even shows that he's open, marginally open,
36:08
Speaker 2: feeding the ball, get him going. And I think we
36:12
Speaker 2: have to score. We certainly have to score at every
36:15
Speaker 2: available opportunity, not just steel goals, but actual touchdowns which
36:19
Speaker 2: have been redaively hard to come by this season. So
36:24
Speaker 2: a much better performance from the offense because I think
36:27
Speaker 2: the offense will have to carry the defense a little
36:29
Speaker 2: bet against Buffalo, and we look, we saw that against Seattle.
36:33
Speaker 2: I mean they did a different past the job against
36:35
Speaker 2: Seattle in what was effectively a playoff game for us
36:38
Speaker 2: before we knew we were making the playoffs. So more
36:41
Speaker 2: of that and just yeah, let's all across our fingers
36:46
Speaker 2: that we get past the Bills.
36:48
Speaker 1: Just on that, I'm going from what Jimmy said, do
36:50
Speaker 1: you have you know, completely agree with Jimmy says, you're
36:53
Speaker 1: looking at twenty four to twenty yet to thirty one points,
36:56
Speaker 1: almost like going into the rowhead trying to get those
36:57
Speaker 1: points on the board and hoping the defense does his job.
37:00
Speaker 1: But it's funny because a woman that was on our
37:03
Speaker 1: podcast if he used to go with Phoebe Shacter this
37:06
Speaker 1: chatting earlier all over something else and you know, throwing
37:08
Speaker 1: her name in here, but she was saying about how
37:09
Speaker 1: confident the mood is in Buffalo and they feel that
37:11
Speaker 1: this is their time, this is their year, and that
37:15
Speaker 1: when you're a team in form, it doesn't matter what
37:17
Speaker 1: happened week twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen. It matters
37:20
Speaker 1: about here and now. But the reality is the every
37:23
Speaker 1: team is owing, oh, going in. It doesn't matter if
37:26
Speaker 1: we see Mason Rudolph ball Off on Sunday, we see
37:29
Speaker 1: we see Mason Rudolph ball Off and the Steelers hopefully
37:33
Speaker 1: go through the divisional round. I reserve judgment. I'm going
37:37
Speaker 1: to stay positive and it's a huge opportunity for Mike
37:41
Speaker 1: Tomlin and the Stears team to you know, show what
37:43
Speaker 1: they have to the league on a prime time for us,
37:47
Speaker 1: but more so that key one o'clock spot in on
37:49
Speaker 1: the East Coast. What what's your honest spots, David, do
37:52
Speaker 1: you feel like the Steelers can win this game, or
37:55
Speaker 1: are you a little bit pessimistic going into this week?
37:57
Speaker 3: Look back, I will won't the idea out of Buffalo
38:01
Speaker 3: or Kansas City. You know, I was sort of praying
38:03
Speaker 3: I would wake up on Monday morning and saying that
38:04
Speaker 3: the Dolphins had to beat them, because I was sort
38:07
Speaker 3: of praying for the Chiefs. You know, they've been an
38:09
Speaker 3: extremely ordinary all the year. I genuinely think we would
38:12
Speaker 3: have had an enormous chance of beating them. But at
38:14
Speaker 3: the same time, as you say, beggars just can't be
38:15
Speaker 3: choosers and we'll have to saddle for Buffalo. You know,
38:18
Speaker 3: I was watching the game on Sunday night, and I
38:20
Speaker 3: was hoping that I'll say, the Dolphins would do as
38:22
Speaker 3: a favor. But you've got to give the Bills crodit.
38:24
Speaker 3: You know the sort of resilience they have shown midway
38:26
Speaker 3: through the season, and you know, they were clearly the
38:28
Speaker 3: batter team in every aspect on Sunday night. So as
38:31
Speaker 3: Jimmy said, Josh Allen, he's an absolute animal, as we know,
38:34
Speaker 3: but he is beatable. You know, they've got a bit
38:37
Speaker 3: of a turnover issue. Only sam Ha has thrown more
38:39
Speaker 3: in theirceptions this year than Josh Allen, So there's always
38:42
Speaker 3: that We've got a pretty good receiving core. You know,
38:44
Speaker 3: you've got Stefan Diggs, Stalton Kin Kids gave Davis, you know,
38:48
Speaker 3: he sort of tends to come to life this time
38:49
Speaker 3: of the year, you know, as well as James Cook
38:51
Speaker 3: in the Running Game. So by all means, this is
38:53
Speaker 3: not going to be easy. As you say, every team
38:56
Speaker 3: starts oh to oh in the playoffs. But if you
38:58
Speaker 3: look at the odds makers making us one hundred and
39:00
Speaker 3: twenty five to one to win the Super Rowl the
39:02
Speaker 3: next and lines Box at sixty six to one, so
39:05
Speaker 3: clearly the bookies aren't given us much chance. But over
39:08
Speaker 3: the past years, you know what a suited us better,
39:11
Speaker 3: being the underdog or being the favorites, you know, exactly.
39:13
Speaker 3: So if we're able to force Josh Allen into a
39:17
Speaker 3: couple of turnovers early, you know we've seen the occasions
39:20
Speaker 3: he's prone to be a bit reckless. Just as Jimmy said,
39:22
Speaker 3: you know, you can get either the version that's turned
39:24
Speaker 3: the ball over left right center, or you can get
39:26
Speaker 3: the one that's sort of run running down hell at you.
39:29
Speaker 3: But absolutely anything can happen, you know, past what being
39:32
Speaker 3: Really that isn't going to help us either. But as
39:35
Speaker 3: I said, you know it's Nax's man up. But yeah,
39:37
Speaker 3: you know that they're probably sitting there confident. I was
39:39
Speaker 3: reading tweets you know Less you know Less failed earlier
39:42
Speaker 3: on and it just seems that everybody is ruling us
39:44
Speaker 3: out already, and that's what we want to see. So
39:47
Speaker 3: I'm hopeful. You know, I'm a bit passimistic, but at
39:49
Speaker 3: the same time, I'm very hopeful with.
39:51
Speaker 2: Those dogs on Patty Power Dave when it's jump Bond
39:53
Speaker 2: and stick at Cheeky tenor on the Steeters to win
39:55
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl this year.
39:56
Speaker 1: You'll be there, see what happens, see what happen exactly. Yeah,
39:59
Speaker 1: let's let's put it on the line right now. Look,
40:05
Speaker 1: I have seen their Super Bowl Challenge where you make
40:09
Speaker 1: your picks, and you know what, this year, I am
40:11
Speaker 1: just I'm gonna lie though. I think the Steelers will
40:15
Speaker 1: put this team close, closer than people think on Sunday.
40:18
Speaker 1: I just don't know how batter how much I'd love
40:21
Speaker 1: to sit here and say I think they'll win. I
40:22
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be very very difficult one in the Buffalo,
40:24
Speaker 1: But I think two keys have to happen. You need
40:28
Speaker 1: to have a run game on its edge this Sunday,
40:31
Speaker 1: and the defense needs to come up. We need to
40:33
Speaker 1: see somebody step in the TV issues and I think
40:36
Speaker 1: if that happens, you've got a serious chance. So in
40:39
Speaker 1: terms of the podcast, as a fan, I say, the
40:42
Speaker 1: Steelers win are really boring. Defensive start game nine to six.
40:46
Speaker 1: I just this is the first time this season where
40:47
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I just feel like, I mean, yeah,
40:51
Speaker 1: it would be a hell of a defense job. When
40:52
Speaker 1: I see your fast started, I just feel like this
40:54
Speaker 1: is gonna be a very, very difficult challenge. And I
40:56
Speaker 1: do agree with you guys that you almost look at
40:59
Speaker 1: maybe Cleve different teams in that AFC bracket, thinking God,
41:04
Speaker 1: that could have been a better challenge. But the reality
41:05
Speaker 1: is to be the best, you've got to beat the best. Yes,
41:08
Speaker 1: you're playing Bubble Buffalo with a hard time in the
41:11
Speaker 1: season where they're hot, but if they can beat Buffalo,
41:14
Speaker 1: the sky's a live. It loads, it really really is. Jimmy,
41:18
Speaker 1: give me some positive.
41:19
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean before we got the news, I mean,
41:23
Speaker 7: obviously when we saw TJ limping off the field against Baltimore,
41:26
Speaker 7: we knew he wasn't gonna be ready if and when
41:27
Speaker 7: we made this game, So that makes things a million
41:30
Speaker 7: times harder than it already was gonna be.
41:32
Speaker 2: I mean, it's like I said, I mean, if if
41:34
Speaker 2: the good version of Josh Allen shows up on Sunday,
41:37
Speaker 2: we're toast. And that's just been honest because you look
41:40
Speaker 2: at our you look at our Our safeties are depleted,
41:44
Speaker 2: Our inside linebackers are depleted. Joey Porter what he's been
41:47
Speaker 2: a lockdown corner you would like to see he's gonna be.
41:50
Speaker 2: He's gonna be trailing Stephan Diggs all over the field
41:52
Speaker 2: on Sunday. I just think Stephan's a wildly veteran he has,
41:56
Speaker 2: he has the edge that he's gonna have to step
41:57
Speaker 2: on Joey look on prayer for a win. I'm gonna
42:01
Speaker 2: say we might, we might do it, but I'm not.
42:03
Speaker 2: I'm not going to be as both my predictions as
42:05
Speaker 2: I have been in the past. I don't want to
42:08
Speaker 2: root against the Steelers, but you know we'll see fingers cross, lads.
42:14
Speaker 1: I think the one thing we share is optimism, and
42:17
Speaker 1: I think until we see otherwise, we believe that this
42:19
Speaker 1: team can go and do it. I was very impressed
42:22
Speaker 1: with how the defense held itself last week. Let's see
42:25
Speaker 1: what happens this is that. Remember you give all these
42:28
Speaker 1: bull predictions. This is your moment this season. But Hensley,
42:31
Speaker 1: hopefully for not the last time, hopefully we're both for
42:33
Speaker 1: a number three weeks. Give us your pick, man, Who've
42:36
Speaker 1: you got?
42:37
Speaker 3: Do you know what it's It's really reluctant, you know,
42:40
Speaker 3: to give a pick in this sort of situation, because
42:44
Speaker 3: we know how good the bills are. I mean, it
42:46
Speaker 3: would be sort of naive for us to walk in
42:49
Speaker 3: and think, you know, we're gonna come out with a
42:50
Speaker 3: win easily. And if we can sort of if we
42:55
Speaker 3: can sort of put asn't say you know what, As
42:57
Speaker 3: I said in the in the previous segment there, I
42:59
Speaker 3: honestly believe that if we can force them into a
43:02
Speaker 3: couple of Earnie turnovers, you never know what will happen.
43:04
Speaker 3: You know, if you sort of get them unsettled early,
43:08
Speaker 3: and if we can offensively show up in the first quarter,
43:11
Speaker 3: in the second quarter, if we can sort of try
43:13
Speaker 3: and build a lead, you never know what will happen.
43:15
Speaker 3: But I'm a bit like Jimmy, I'm on the fence
43:17
Speaker 3: for this one, and I'm gonna it's between ahead and
43:20
Speaker 3: my heart at this rate, and you know what, I
43:22
Speaker 3: may as well go with my heart on this occasion.
43:24
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go Steelers fourteen bills thirteen. I'm not gonna
43:28
Speaker 3: say and bring it to the back on this occasion
43:30
Speaker 3: because I don't want anybody.
43:34
Speaker 2: I wouldn't give a score production day. So you're a
43:36
Speaker 2: braver man, You're a braverhal deny on them.
43:40
Speaker 3: I don't know.
43:40
Speaker 1: I just I have to do it.
43:42
Speaker 3: I have to do it. You know it's it could
43:44
Speaker 3: be the last podcast of the season. I would feel
43:46
Speaker 3: bad if it didn't give a prediction, but I'm gonna
43:49
Speaker 3: do it.
43:50
Speaker 1: As there's one thing guaranteed, it will not be the
43:53
Speaker 1: last podcast of the season. No matter what happens, We'll
43:55
Speaker 1: definitely have at least one more. No, look, we'll be
43:58
Speaker 1: back in no matter what. Great to see you guys
44:01
Speaker 1: on the hype video last week, Share in the Stage
44:03
Speaker 1: with with Royal Day. I see it, loved it lads.
44:07
Speaker 1: Hopefully I'm gonna make an appearance on it this week.
44:09
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens. But not do you know what?
44:11
Speaker 1: Actually love seeing all the like the the Irish tweets.
44:15
Speaker 1: I'm seeing friends that you know might not have the
44:18
Speaker 1: Steelers as their first team, but they're they're jumping a board,
44:21
Speaker 1: jumping on the wagon ahead of the playoff push. So
44:23
Speaker 1: it's Ireland's team. Let's see what happens and certainly it's
44:26
Speaker 1: going to be a huge game this Sunday. The game
44:29
Speaker 1: is at six o'clock. It's on Sky Sports NFL in
44:31
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44:33
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44:36
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44:39
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44:41
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44:44
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44:48
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